Consistent Pete gets his hands on silverware

CENTENARY CELEBRATION for Werneth’s Pete Griffin.

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IN-FORM Pete Griffin carried off the Oldham and District Centenary Trophy at his home course, Werneth.

The nine-handicapper shot a three over par 71 gross for a nett 62 and a one-shot win over fellow club-mates Mark Wareing, club captain John Suttie and Mark Timperley, who all scored 63.

Griffin had picked up the best nett prize at the previous week’s Werneth club championship with rounds of 65 and 68, and continued his good play in glorious weather on Saturday.

He scored 14 pars and a birdie at the fourth, with his only blemishes bogeys at the second and 15th and a double bogey at the 13th.

The host club completed a clean sweep of the prizes with one handicapper Adam Rowbotham claiming the best gross with a 67.



CROMPTON and Royton’s Gary Melling was fifth in the Northern Order Of Merit’s Revidge Cannon at Blackburn. Melling shot rounds of 73 and 70 143 to finish nine shots adrift of the

amazing 134 total by Clitheroe’s Mark Ashworth (66=68=134).



WERNETH’S Handley Memorial Trophy, a major board competition, produced victory for Brenda Martin with a return of 93-24-69. Runner up was Glynis Jones who shot 96-26-70.

First division, first sweep went to Sheila Antrobus (92-19-73), with Sheila Waterhouse (103-25-78)

taking the second sweep.

Second division sweeps went to Dee Whittingham (105-32-73) and Gail Rowbotham (109-32-77).

Werneth’s Dorothy Ayrton three-ball Alliance medal was by Sheila Antrobus, Joan Swindells and Sylvia Dempster with a nett 61, while a two-ball Stableford prize went to Pat Grant with 32 points.



JANE Antrobus produced superb nett rounds of 67 and 66 to win Oldham’s lady captain’s prize.

Her 133 nett total was two shots better than runner-up Janet Kershaw (68+67=135), while the best gross prize went to Bev Scholes for her 78+75=153.

Sheil Antrobus (nett 70) won the first-day prize, and second-day honours went to Karen Phanco with the same score. Mary Buckley (71+74=145) won the sweep, while Eileen Cowell’s 23 points on the back nine earned her the subsidary prize.